Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-23
PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.

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by fire, which was presumably incendiary.
Flots have been discovered among the in
habitants Of Upper Burmah and the
Dacoits to burn towns in that section.
massacre Europeans anS proclaim a new
king.
THE Florida Democrats, at last ac-
counts, were at deadlock on their Sena-
tora nomination.
Up to the evening of the 10th st. Louis
had raised $4,000 toward the entertain
ment fund for the G. A. R. National en-
campment, to be held in September next.
IN the seventy-hour pedestrian contest
at Lawrencs, Mass, which closed on the
evening of the 10th, Hezelman was the
winner, with score of 4J1 miles.
ALEXANDER LAwToN, of Georgia, has
been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria Hun
gary.
CHIEF JUSTICE CARTIER of the District
OF Columbia Supreme Court, died at
Washington on the night of the 10TH He
had been in delicate health for some time
GENERAL o. B. WILCOX, in command of
the Department of the Missouri, was
placed upon the retired list on the 10Th,
having attained his sixty-fourth year.
Two-FOx, the Piegan Indian who re-
Gently murdered an Englishman in Mon
tana, refused to surrender to his pursuers
and committed suicide.
A. NJ. WILLIO, a wealthy Californian,
residing in San Francisco, has just re-
covered one of two daughters who were
abducted twelve years ago by an actress
named Mile. Lola.
MRS. CLEVELAND spent the whole of last
week at Oak View, and enjoyed a rest in
the company of her mother and aunt. the
latter being on visit from jackson,
Mich.
The charter of the Louisian Lottery
being about to expire by limita tion, an
effort is being made by it's promoters to
secure franchise from the provincial
government Of Nova Scotia
JOHN +. DoHERTY, who was locked up
in Boston for beating his wife, committed
suicide in his cell at the station house on
the 10th.
A FIRE On the freight docks of the New
York Central railroad in New York on
the 10th, caused loss of S3Ga,000
II. c. BUsLY. one of the ringleaders in
the Panhandle railway freight robberies,
and who escaped from the officers after
his arrest by jumping from a train, was
recaptured on the 10Th and lodged in Jail
at Pittsburgh.
CHARLES JOHNSON and Edward Cald-
well, convicted of the murder of Turnkey
John Walters at Waterloo, N. Y, were
sentenced on the 10TH, the former to be
hanged on May 27 next, and the latter to
Imprisonment for life at Auburn prison.
BRIDGET HUGHES was burned to death in
a New York tenement-house fire on the
18th. Richard Gilladorf was badly burned
about the feet. and was sent to the hos
pital.
EVERY business place in the village of
Ainsworth Ia, was destroyed by fire on
the l6.h. Twenty seven structures are in
ruins and many families are left desti-
tute
IT has been discovered that tho arms
furnished most of the British volunteer
organizations during the past ten years
have been WORTHLESS, for practical use.
THE Duchess of Cumberland, sister of
the Princess Of Wales, who was recently
sent to retreat for the insane, is slowly
but surely recovering her mental balance.
THE jury which tried Arensdorf at Sioux
City, Ia, for the Haddock murder dis
agreed and were discharged.
DIR. MCGLYNN returned to New York
on the 18th from his Western lecturing
trip which he says was a pleasant and
successful one.
The Philadelphia Typographical Union
on the 18th considered the que stion OF in
creasng the price of composition from
forty to forty-five cents. 1t was finally
decided to refer the matter to special
committee.
STILsoN HUTCuINs and jeff Chandler
have gone to Europe to introduce inven
tions-the former a type-setting machine,
the latter pneumatic gun carriage.
IT has been practically decided by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
grant no suspension of the long and short
haul provision, and those already granted
will not be renewed when the time is out.
THE upper pit of the Davidson coke
works, at Conn ellsville, Pa, caught fire
on the 10 n and imprisoned three miners.
all Of whom are believed to be dead.
Their names are Paul Nagle, William
Roder and Shamman.
Troops have been sent to put settlers
off the Winnebago and Crow Creek reser-
vations.
WILLIAM j. ALLEN has been appointed
United States District Judge for the
Southern district of Illinois.
LOUISVILLE and Cincinnati stove
molders quit work on the 18th on account
of the st. Louis objectiona BILE patterns.
SENATOR CoCKRELL, of Missouri, is one
of the board of visitors to the Military
Academy at West Point appointed by the
President.
BooT and shoe cutters of New England
are forming an independent union, which,
it is said, will weaken the Knights OF La
bOr
MORE severe treatment for Alsatians Of
French antecedents and sympathies is
being enforced by the German Govern
ment.
The British steamer Tasmania has been
lost off the coast of Corsica It's known
upward of one twenty five passengers
were drowned.
PRELIMINARY hearings began in the Pan
Handle robbery cases at Pittsburgh on
the 18th, and were laid over to the Goth.
The United States Supreme Court has
rendered decision confil ming the famous
Maxwell land grant TO 10000 acres OF
land in Colorado and New Mexico.
THE alleged fac-simile Of Parnell let
ter published in the London Times has
created an immense sensation The editor
of the Times is TO be brought before the
House of Commons and its authorship de-
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